They work very well. I Have been using xlrd for some years under both python 2. 7 and 3.3 on OSX and Linux over some years now whenever I have had to deal with them. The down side is that they do not understand the contemporary version of excel but need the saved in the previous document format, but this is at least only a minor inconvenience
On 4 February 2014 14:48:15 GMT+11:00, David Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >Oops... : > >This was under Windows, but I beleive the libs work perfeclty under >Linux >as well.. > >Regards, >David > > >On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Javier Candeira wrote: > >> At work I need to manipulate a series of excel spreasheets, and I >seem >> to remember that people have discussed the topic in a meeting. I have >> two questions to anyone who's already had to do the same: >> >> - What's the current best Python library for excel manipulation? >> - Are there any limitations for handling Excel sheets under Linux? >> What kind of thing would I need Windows (and presumably, a live copy >> of Office) for? >> >> As background for the question, I'm trying to avoid using Windows at >> all. My ideal workflow would involve users downloading generated >> spreadsheets from a webserver. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Javier >> _______________________________________________ >> melbourne-pug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug >> >_______________________________________________ >melbourne-pug mailing list >[email protected] >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug
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